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Wave Sports + Entertainment
Digital entertainment for modern sports fans
- 101-200 employees
- B2C
- Entertainment
- Sports
- Media
- Downtown, Santa Monica, CA
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Company mission
To provide modern sports fans with all the content, programming, and streaming they love.
26% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Wave Sports + Entertainment (formerly known as WAVE.tv) specializes in short sports highlights and unique sporting moments under three minutes long, providing fans with the best moments of their favorite games. It utilizes content from sporting organizations to program-themed media brands across platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok.
The company uses “fandoms” to appeal to the different sports genres, and is looking at moving into e-sports and betting options in the future. It's adding to its portfolio of non-mainstream sports and off-the-field videos of fans and athletes. The company also accepts submissions of home videos.
There are many sporting networks, but Wave Sports + Entertainment is particularly popular with younger customers, with 80% of viewers falling between 13-34 years old. By using platforms like Snapchat, Wave Sports + Entertainment caters to the tech preferences of this market. The company has also recently branched out by making deals with sportswear brands, including Under Armour Inc.
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Benefits
- Fully-paid medical, dental, and vision plans, paid maternity/paternity, unlimited vacation, 401(K), and much more! We want to make sure you’re taken care of while we build the future of sports & entertainment together
- Our Employee Wellness Program: Enjoy monthly wellness stipends, corporate subscriptions (Class Pass, Calm), virtual enrichment events, awesome snacks & drinks at the office, quarterly care packages/giveaways, and much more! We’re dedicated to keeping you happy and healthy
- We keep work fun. Monthly department happy hours, monthly cross-connects with people across the company, annual celebrations, summer Fridays, outings to sports events, and more, we all work hard and play hard
- We're committed to making Wave Sports + Entertainment as inclusive and diverse as the fans we engage with every day. Join one of our DE&I groups to meet other teammates like W.O.W (Women of Wave), Wave Pride, and B.W.M. (Black Wave Matters), or feel empowered to start your own group. And join us in making a change in our community and beyond every month through our Wave Gives Back program
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$27m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$32m
SERIES A
Total funding: $64.2m
Leadership
Brian Verne
(CEO)They started their career as a Sales and Marketing Manager at Verne Gallery, before working as CEO of Venom in 2014. They left this position in 2016 to co-found Wave Sports + Entertainment in June 2017.
Ishaan Sutaria
(Co-CEO & President)They worked for a year at ISI Group in Equity Research before working at Rocket Fuel. They co-founded Wave Sports + Entertainment with Brian in March 2017 as co-CEO.